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Location

  • Italy, Tarquinia
  • geo:42.250603,11.769111

Period or year

  • -600~ / unknown

Classification

  • graves
  • Visible

Tomba del Fiore di Loto, Tarquinia

data access 23720

Tomba del Fiore di Loto - Tomb of Lotus Flower dicovered in 1962 dates back to around the 6th century BC. The burial chamber consist of a double sloped ceiling decorated with small flowers. The back wall depicts a lion and a panther facing each other with an inverted lotus flower between.

 

See:

  1. Stephan Steingräber, Abundance of Life: Etruscan Wall Painting, Getty Publications, 2006
  2. http://www.canino.info/inserti/monografie/etruschi/tombe_tarquinia/Fiore%20di%20Loto/index.htm

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-12-09) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/23720
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Tomba del Fiore di Loto, Tarquinia. https://vici.org/vici/23720, accessed 2026-10-28.